Calories in the morning!

[Murman]

When you do your cardio in the morning how many Calories do you burn buy the time your done?
What machine or machines do you workout on?
If there are settings what do you set them at?

I workout on a treadmill an i'm burning about 200 calories.
I set it at 3.5 and I mix up the inclines from 0 to 3.

Thanks for your info

 

[Murman]

 

[Mr.X]

When you do your cardio in the morning how many Calories do you burn buy the time your done?
What machine or machines do you workout on?
If there are settings what do you set them at?

I workout on a treadmill an i'm burning about 200 calories.
I set it at 3.5 and I mix up the inclines from 0 to 3.

Thanks for your info

In the morning I like doing:
Treadmill, at 7.0 incline and 3.0 speed for 30-60min....
Usually, I don't look at the calories burned stated by the machine, yet I count it basically by looking at type exercise/intensity/etc...

All in All, it's basically low-intensity.
Mr.X

 

[blood_drinker]

Forget those ! Most calories burned come 60mins after the morning cardio, which is precisely why you should ingest your breakfast 60mins after cardio.

 

[Hoffmeister]

blood, do you have any references for that?

Because the stuff I've seen is that, especially following low-intensity cardio, you may be burning 10-20 extra calories post workout.

 

[Mr.X]

blood, do you have any references for that?

Because the stuff I've seen is that, especially following low-intensity cardio, you may be burning 10-20 extra calories post workout.

I do not have a strong opinion on this subject, but here are some studies to help both of you out.

Sandretto AM, Tsai AC. Effects of fat intake on body composition and hepatic lipogenic enzyme activities of hamsters shortly after exercise cessation. Amer J Clin Nutr 1988; 47(2): 1175-9.

Tsai AC, Gong TW. Modulation of the exercise and retirement effects by dietary fat intake in hamsters. J Nutr 1987; 117(6): 1149-53


These two studies have follow ups and you'll probably find the answer in them.

Mr.X

 

[Hoffmeister]

Here are a copule more:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2626089&dopt=Abstract

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9100214&dopt=Abstract

 

[quigs]

I do my treadmill cardio in intervals 5 days a week 1st thing in the morning.

I start out @ 3.0 incline and 3.0 speed for 3 mins to warm up.
Then i'll bump it up to 6.0 speed and 3.0 incline for 2 mins...then for one minute i'll go all the way up to 8.0 speed and 10 incline...then back down to 6.0 speed 3.0 incline for 2 more minutes. I'll alternate between the two speeds this way for about 15 minutes. Then i'll go up to the 8.0 speed 10.0 incline for 1.5 mins and then back down to 6.0 speed 3.0 incline for 3 minutes (i'll do this twice). After the second time of the 8.0 speed/10 incline I'll go back to 6.0 speed 3.0 incline for 2 mins. At the 30 minute mark i'll go up to 8.0 speed and 10.0 incline for 3 minutes...then down to 6.0 speed 3.0 incline for 3 minutes...then cool down for the last for mins @ 3.0 incline 3.0 speed.

Total: 40 mins treadmill (usually says that i burn between 650-750 cals)
I don't do my weight training till later in the evening because im just burned out after this.

 

[MS]

I also ignore the numbers spewed out by those machines. What's important is to train at a moderate intensity for a set amount of time. In other words just do it. Either that or engage in interval training for a shorter but more intense period of time. I find intervals less of a drag, but tough to maintain on a lowered carb cutting diet combined with weight training. I prefer intervals when bulking.

The extra energy burned post exercise is actually minimal. If you read the details of any of those EPOC studies you will see that even at 75% VO2 max for 500 cals that the extra calories burned post exercise are only around 40, and at 50% VO2 max it is only around 20 extra calories above BMR. Sometimes these studies can be misleading because they use words like 'significant' for a statistical concept but it may not mean much from a biological point of view. In fact if you average the EPOC from an hour of low-moderate intensity exercise in men over a 24 hour period (which is only around 12 cals) it becomes insignificant.